Peek & Cloppenburg consists of two legally and economically independent companies based in Düsseldorf and Hamburg.
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1.2. ‘Personal data’ means individual disclosures about your personal or factual circumstances. This Privacy Policy shall describe the manner in which we process your personal data transmitted by you to us during your visit to our website.

2.1. You can visit our website without actively providing us with disclosures about your identity. In this case, we will only gather the personal data transmitted by your browser to our server. This data will be anonymised or gathered using pseudonyms in order to deliver the contents of the website to the user’s computer and in order to perform an evaluation for the purposes of optimising and monitoring the functionality of our web presence while ensuring the security of our information technology systems (Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter f) GDPR).

2.2. Our log files contain disclosures about the date and time of retrieval of our website, browser type, version and settings, your operating system and Internet service provider, about the websites used by you to get to our website or which called up by you via our website, as well as the quantity of data transmitted.

2.3. Your IP address will likewise be gathered on a case-by-case basis, i.e. an address allocated by your Internet service provider to your computer once to connect to the Internet. This IP address enables communication on the Internet. Your Internet service provider can retrace the IP address allocated to you at a given point in time. Since the full IP address allows at least to establish an indirect relation to an identifiable person on this account, we will exclusively gather your IP address in an abbreviated (anonymised) form to ensure that establishing any relation to an identifiable person by us will be excluded, and we will store it separately from any personal data. As a rule, the log file data will be deleted after 14 days at the latest.

2.4. Collection of such data to provide the website and to store the data in log files will be absolutely necessary to ensure operation of the website. Any possibility to object does not exist in this context.

3. Use of Google Analytics / Right of Objection

3.1. Our website uses cookies to collect your data exclusively while using pseudonyms. Cookies are small data packages generated by a web server and placed on the hard drive of your computer while your computer is communicating with the web server. We use cookies, inter alia, to create usage profiles for advertising and market research purposes and for designing the website on a needs basis. Regardless of the type of cookies used, you always have the option of deciding whether or not you want to accept cookies. You can configure your browser settings in such a way that you will be notified once you receive a cookie, or you can exercise your existing statutory right of objection against any use of cookies by rejecting cookies in the browser settings. You can delete any cookies already stored by using the corresponding function of your browser. Details can be found in the Help function of your web browser. Comprehensive information about cookies and the manner in which cookies can be rejected or deleted for a large number of browsers can be found on the following websites: https://www.networkadvertising.org/ (in English) and/or http://www.aboutads.info/ (in English). Please note that you might possibly not be able to use the whole range of website functions if you do not accept cookies.

3.2. We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”), with which we have entered into a contract data processing agreement. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, i.e. text files which can be stored on your computer. Such files contain a characteristic sequence of numbers enabling unambiguous identification of any browser once our website is called up again, unless the cookie has been deleted by you or its period of validity has expired in the meantime. The cookie will lose its validity after 30 days and will no longer transmit any information to us to enable use to personally identify you. If you visit specific sections of our website and the cookie has not expired yet, Google and we can see that you had clicked on the ad and had then be forwarded to this site. If you do not wish to participate in the tracking process, you can reject the setting of cookies required to that end, for ex. via browser settings generally disabling any automatic setting of cookies.

3.3. We will use the data generated by cookies to improve the quality of our website and its contents. As a general rule, the information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will be transferred to a server of Google in the United States and will be stored there. Please note that our website uses the “anonymizeIp()” (IP anonymisation) extension. As a result, Google will abbreviate your IP address within the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area by the last octet for IPv4 addresses and by the last 80 bits in the memory for IPv6 addresses before any storage and transmission takes place to ensure that any direct relation to an identifiable person will be excluded. The entire IP address will be transmitted to a server of Google in the United States and abbreviated there only in exceptional cases. Further technical information about how the IP address will be anonymised can be found at the following link (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en).

3.4. Google will use this information on our behalf (Art. 28 GDPR) to evaluate your use of the website for us, to compile reports about the website activities for us and to provide us with further services associated with the use of the website and the use of the Internet (Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter f) GDPR). The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be amalgamated with any other data of Google.

3.5. You can prevent cookies from being stored by setting your browser accordingly; in this case, however, some functions of this website might be impaired, as the case may be. You can also delete cookies yourself. You can prevent Google from gathering and processing the data generated by the cookie by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available for common browsers at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en). In addition, you can place a <a href=“javascript:gaOptout()“>Disable Google Analytics</a> opt-out cookie which will then prevent any future gathering of your data while visiting this website. You can also disable cookies for conversion tracking by configuring your browser settings in such a manner that cookies will be blocked by the “googleadservices.com” domain. Information about the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy of Google Analytics can be found at https://policies.google.com/?hl=en.

4.1. Our website offers a contact form which can be used to contact us electronically. The data entered there will be transmitted to and stored by us. This includes name and e-mail address and your address or customer card number, as the case may be. This data will be required in order to answer your questions.

4.2. Your consent will be obtained for any processing of the data within the framework of the sending process (Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter a) GDPR) so that we may use your data to contact you and forward your request for replies to questions in relation to any other partner company to the relevant partner company. In this case, your consent will be as follows:

“I agree that the controller and its partner companies [https://www.peek-cloppenburg.de/partnerunternehmen] may use the personal data indicated by me to contact me with respect to my concern. Such consent may be revoked at any time by corresponding statement vis-à-vis the controller. I also agree that my personal data may be transmitted to Peek & Cloppenburg AG, Kalandergasse 4, 8045 Zurich, Switzerland, if my enquiry has any relation to such company”

4.3. We will delete the data generated within the framework of any contact enquiry once storage is no longer required, or we will restrict processing if any statutory retention requirements apply.

5. Use of Personal Data for Newsletters

5.1. By giving your separate consent to newsletters, you agree that we and our partner companies (cf. clause 1.4) may use your data for advertising purposes to provide you with offers and information about products, services and marketing offers via e-mail (“newsletter"). In this case, the text of your separate declaration of consent will be as follows:

“I hereby agree that the controller and its partner companies [https://www.peek-cloppenburg.de/partnerunternehmen] may use my e-mail address to provide me with e-mails on offers and promotions. Unsubscription will be possible at any time by corresponding notice of revocation vis-à-vis the controller or clicking on an ‘unsubscribe’ link within any newsletter mailing. I also agree that my personal data may be transmitted to Peek & Cloppenburg AG, Kalandergasse 4, 8045 Zurich in Switzerland.”

5.2. To enable subscription to our newsletter, we use a double-opt-in process. Following your subscription, we will thus send a separate e-mail to you, asking you to confirm that you want to receive our newsletter. Following your confirmation, we will store your e-mail address for the purpose of sending the newsletter to you. This shall be legally based on Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 Letter a) GDPR. In addition, we will gather the IP address of the computer calling up the website as well as the date and time of registration upon subscription. Collection of such data will serve to prevent any misuse of the services or of the e-mail address used (Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter f) GDPR). If you do not confirm your newsletter subscription immediately, we will delete your disclosures.

5.3. Your e-mail address will be the sole mandatory disclosure for sending the newsletter. Indication of any further data is optional and will be used in order to address you in person.

5.4. Your e-mail address will be stored by us as long as your newsletter subscription is in use or until to object to such use. To ensure fulfilment of this responsibility, we will cooperate with our partner companies [https://www.peek-cloppenburg.de/partnerunternehmen], to which we may pass on your data for advertising purposes based on your consent. Any passing on of data to any third parties, that are not part of the partner companies specified here, will not take place.

5.5. You may revoke your consent to the newsletter being sent to you and unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. You can give notice of revocation by clicking on the link provided in every newsletter e-mail by sending an e-mail to dialog@peek-cloppenburg. or by contacting Peek & Cloppenburg KG, Data Privacy Officer, Berliner Allee 2, 40212 Düsseldorf.

6. Objection to or Revocation of the Processing of Your Data

6.1. If you have given any consent to any processing of your data, you make revoke such consent at any time. Such revocation will influence the admissibility of any processing of your personal data - not for the future, but for the period before giving notice of revocation.

6.2. To the extent that we base any processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests acc. to Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter f) GDPR, you may lodge an objection against such processing. This does not apply if such processing is required, in particular, to execute any agreement concluded with you. If you exercise such right of objection, please provide us with the reasons why we should not process your personal data in the manner implemented by us. In case that your objection is well-founded, we will examine the situation and will either cease and/or customise any data processing or demonstrate to you our compelling legitimate grounds due to which we will continue such processing.

7. Your Rights

7.1. You may exercise the following rights vis-à-vis us regarding the personal data related to you:

- right to information;

- right to have your personal data corrected or deleted, except for any personal data that we require for accounting purposes or that is subject to a statutory retention period;

- right to restrict processing;

- right to object to any processing;

- right to data portability.

In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint with any data protection supervisory authority in respect of any processing of your personal data by us.

7.2. Please send your enquiries by to datenschutz@peek-cloppenburg.de or to